Every mass killing or school shooting leads to a debate over whether publicizing the tragedies influences violent crime. A new statistical study has found that such events do, in fact, seem to be contagious. ...

ROMULUS, N.Y. >> The surviving escapee from a prison break and three-week manhunt will spend 23 hours a day in a maximum-security cell, much more confined than he and a fellow murder convict were in the prison from which they managed a getaway, ...

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VIENNA >> A day before the new deadline for a nuclear accord, Iran pushed on Monday for an end to the U.N. arms embargo on the country — a parallel deal that the United States opposes as it seeks to limit Tehran’s Mideast power and influence.

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Every mass killing or school shooting leads to a debate over whether publicizing the tragedies influences violent crime. A new statistical study has found that such events do, in fact, seem to be contagious.

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LONDON >> Britons paused in silence, laid flowers and lit candles Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of suicide bombings on London’s transit system in the worst terror attack on British soil and a day of pain seared into London’s collective memory.

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Last December, a few dozen scientists gathered at the modest headquarters of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Bethesda, Md. Researchers from academic labs and startups convened in the foundation’s fourth-floor conference rooms to discuss new ways to target the fatal lung disease, which affects 30,000 Americans. The foundation’s goal was to get the rare disease on the top of scientists’ agenda for novel treatments such as gene editing or...